McGuinness: NI parties will 'stay united'

The North's deputy first minister Martin McGuinness has said any effort to throw the political process off-track will fail.

Martin McGuinness was speaking after a meeting with the First Minister Peter Robinson, the North's Chief Constable Matt Baggott and Justice Minister Alan Shatter at Stormont this morning.

They were discussing the murder of Catholic policeman, 25-year-old Ronan Kerr, in Omagh at the weekend.

Mr Kerr was killed by a car bomb which exploded under his vehicle on Saturday afternoon.

Martin McGuinness said all the political parties will "stay united - no matter what".

“They are involved in a useless war against peace,” he said at Stormont.

“They are enemies of the peace, they are the enemies of the people of Ireland.”

After the constable’s heartbroken mother Nuala Kerr last night urged Catholics not to be dissuaded from joining the police, Mr McGuinness also spoke of his deep pride in the young nationalists and republicans who had chosen to wear the uniform of the Police Service of Northern Ireland.